Weather is showing mostly sunny today with highs in the mid 90s for the southeast Colorado region. Tonight, we’ll drop to lows near 60 degrees.
For Friday, sunny skies again with highs in the mid 90s.
Now, here’s the news.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many large school districts across the state of Colorado are making the difficult decision to begin the school year utilizing online instruction only. Locally, rural schools have been able to maximize their small size to offer in-person instruction.
Among these is the Aguilar School District, which kicked off the new school year on August 3, making them the first to reopen to in-person learning within the county this fall, and one of the first in Colorado.
With roughly 110 K-12 students and twenty-five staff on campus, Aguilar schools have the ability to effectively socially distance learners throughout the day, including on busses, in the halls, in the cafeteria, and in the classroom.
While elementary students are attending school all day, Aguilar is using a hybrid model with its secondary students to further increase social distancing, with middle school students attending in-person classes in the morning supported by distance instruction in the afternoon. High school students follow the opposite schedule, at- tending school in the afternoon while learning from home in the morning.
In local sports, Senior Lance Peters made his Primero boys golf debut a stunning success with a first place finish at the Tiger Stableford Tournament in La Junta on Friday, August 7.
This is Peters’ first year representing Primero on the golf course; previously, he participated as a member of the Trinidad High School team.
Competing against roughly 50 other golfers, Peters shot a personal best, scoring five under par with a 67.
Congratulations Lance!
CBS 9 reported yesterday that The Pine Gulch Fire that was started by lightning last month has grown to approximately 51,000 acres. Containment by Colorado firefighting crews on Wednesday remained at 7%. It’s now spreading to the northeast.
There are still a number of evacuations in the area — about 18 miles from Grand Junction — and smoke from the wildfire has prompted air quality warnings.
Air quality alerts have also been posted for the entire Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, and Greeley areas because of smoke and high concentrations of ground level ozone. The air is considered unhealthy for sensitive groups including young children, older adults, and anyone with a respiratory illness.
A key supplier to Apple Inc. and a dozen other tech giants plans to split its supply chain between the Chinese market and the U.S., declaring that China’s time as factory to the world is finished because of the trade war HindustanTimes reported yesterday.
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Chairman Young Liu said it’s gradually adding more capacity outside of China, the main base of production for gadgets from iPhones to Dell desktops and Nintendo Switches. The proportion outside the country is now at 30%, up from 25% last June.
That ratio will rise as the company -- known also as Foxconn -- moves more manufacturing to Southeast Asia and other regions to avoid escalating tariffs on Chinese-made goods headed to U.S. markets, Liu told reporters after his company reported financial results.
Intensifying trade tensions between Washington and Beijing have pushed device manufacturers to diversify their production bases away from China, and Liu last year said that Apple’s most prized product, the iPhone, can be made outside China if needed. The two nations remain in trade talks, but Liu’s comments affirm a growing expectation that the China-centric electronics supply chain will likely fragment over the longer term.
Happening today, Dr. Ivory Raye will be offering a virtual “Health Talk” presented by Mount Carmel. To register for the talk, visit MountCarmelCenter.org.
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